"I realise that the dude who's getting a Dell has IDE..."
Not quite. I just bought a Dell server (2500 series) and had to return it because of a lack of a standard IDE controller. Dell had this little proprietary cable that ran the CD and floppy, and there were no other connectors on the MB. I could have bought an IDE controller for about $40, but dammit, when I buy a $2000 server and it doesn't come with an IDE controller, I want my money back.
We switched to IBM for now. They do have IDE controllers on-board.
I disagree. I've got a Dish Network PVR 501 that works wonderfully.
All the guide information comes down through the sat signal.
The hard drive stores the raw MPEG bitstream, not a recompressed version.
The quality is therefore identical to the live sat broadcast.
I have a 10-second skip back.
I have a 30-second skip forward.
Live pause is perfectly integrated.
The guide search works great now.
Built-in on-screen caller ID.
The only things I miss are the ability to change out hard drives for a bigger model, and the ability to dump a show to CD or DVD. These features I can live without. This little box works great.
Now if I can just get caller IQ I'll be all set.
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"My english feels a little off today, scuse me."
"What i'm trying to say is..."
"Let me put it another way."
Man my engrish is bad today...
All this posted by t0qer. Dude, you need to lay off the brown weed...;-)
"MS SQL-Server actually does a better job of it than even Oracle."
Oracle 9i now supports the SQL-92 syntax including natural joins. If you want to join two or more tables that have properly named keys (like key names for PK/FK relationships), then you can use the following:
select *
from A
natural join B
where A.MayorName is not null
and B.TaxRate > 5
It's a very nice way to join a lot of properly normalized tables with little to no WHERE clauses.
SQL Server can probably do the same thing as well.
Ack! I read "Ever have a problem when you're lying naked on your money..." as "Ever have a problem when you're lying naked on your monkey..." and nearly spit Dew all over my monitor!
Latitude C810, 1.13, 512MB, GF4, 60GB, 802.11 enabled, single battery, light to average usage, I get about 3 to 4 hours. Pushing the CPU gets me down to around 1.5 to 2 hours.
I have to agree. I've been eith Dreamhost for a few years now and the few times that I actually have had to contact their technical support, it's been great. The people responding to the requests are knowledgable about the problems and how to fix them. Dreamhost team - if you're reading this, keep up the great work!
I have a laptop with a GeForce2 Go in it. It has TwinView support right out of the box. Plug a monitor into the port on the back, or plug a TV into the SVideo out and the drivers will enable TwinView for you. The laptop display becomes the primary, and the external becomes the secondary. It works seamlessly with Windows 2K and XP. I haven't tried Linux on it.
...the large amounts of hardware scattered across the country being linked together to solve (process?) larger problems. There is so much hardware sitting on desks that goes largely unused, this seems to me like the next logical step in computation resources.
Instead of looking for customized hardware, just buy a KVM designed for use over TCP/IP. Then just capture the screens from the remote control software. Search Google for "KVM over IP". One such example is Dakota.
I work with Delphi on a daily basis. Delphi supports (fully) all of the following:
The GUI is simply fabulous. There are also productivity add-ons to make development even faster.
Full exception model included, and support for write-your-own exception model.
Complete OO design model, however it doesn't support multiple inheritance. Instead, interfaces are fully supported. Abstract classes and interfaces accomplish 99% of what MI supports. I would vote for MI in the next release of Delphi, simply to complete the object model, but I haven't run across a problem yet that can't be easily solved using classes and interfaces.
Garbage collection is automatically performed for strings and interfaces, but anything you allocate memory for you need to free.
Full support for object inheritance and function overloading. There is no operator overloading.
My cousin flys B1 bombers for a living. They use the toughbooks as in-flight navigation. They hook the GPS receiever on the plane up to the laptop (serial cable !) and use off-the-shelf flight planning software. It's really rather slick, since the in-flight control system is based on two 2MHz CPU's with a whopping 32K RAM each.
"...and sorry to the MCSE's but it is true, the W2K services are nothing but fluff..."
I have to disagree. There is one thing in Windows 2000 that made network support 100 times easier - dynamic DNS. Before (NT4.0) you had to have a DNS server, WINS server, and DHCP server, and WINS wasn't real easy to maintain because of faulty clients and replication issues. The new DDNS system is really sweet. Win2K really made DHCP and DNS talk to each other and I'll never go back to WINS.
MagTek readers are very common in our industry. They have stand-alone readers availible in USB, RS232, keyboard wedge, and TTL configurations. You can also pick up insert kiosk-style readers for use in your own custom designed enclosures. The small form factor keyboard wedges are around $70 from many dealers. I've installed more of those than I can count. Search Google for the part number you're looking for and you'll probably get pages of matches.
If you're looking for more configurability, have a look at IDT-Net's readers. They are available in the stand-alone and kiosk-styles like MagTek, but they have models that can be programmed to pre-pend, post-pend, and modify swiped data before transmittal. That feature is REALLY nice when you're trying to decode some custom membership card that's got it's own wierd track II format. The Omni readers are in the $180 range.
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Not quite. I just bought a Dell server (2500 series) and had to return it because of a lack of a standard IDE controller. Dell had this little proprietary cable that ran the CD and floppy, and there were no other connectors on the MB. I could have bought an IDE controller for about $40, but dammit, when I buy a $2000 server and it doesn't come with an IDE controller, I want my money back.
We switched to IBM for now. They do have IDE controllers on-board.
POKE 65495,0...
My computer sped up quite a bit after viewing your sig. Thank you!
If Water + Salt + Energy = Clean, then Energy = Clean - Water - Salt.
Step 1: Find something clean.
Step 2: Remove the water from it.
Step 3: Remove the salt from it.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit from FREE ENERGY!
Bah. Let them have the PS-whatever. Those boxes don't boot without a controller, which means the missle WILL HAVE A PAUSE BUTTON!
Duh.
I disagree. I've got a Dish Network PVR 501 that works wonderfully.
- All the guide information comes down through the sat signal.
- The hard drive stores the raw MPEG bitstream, not a recompressed version.
- The quality is therefore identical to the live sat broadcast.
- I have a 10-second skip back.
- I have a 30-second skip forward.
- Live pause is perfectly integrated.
- The guide search works great now.
- Built-in on-screen caller ID.
The only things I miss are the ability to change out hard drives for a bigger model, and the ability to dump a show to CD or DVD. These features I can live without. This little box works great.Now if I can just get caller IQ I'll be all set.
"What i'm trying to say is..."
"Let me put it another way."
Man my engrish is bad today...
All this posted by t0qer. Dude, you need to lay off the brown weed... ;-)
Where the top 5 (and only) three-and-above comments are ranked as Funny. Sheesh. You'd think this was a humor website!
Works dandy all the way back to Oracle 7.3.4...
"MS SQL-Server actually does a better job of it than even Oracle."
Oracle 9i now supports the SQL-92 syntax including natural joins. If you want to join two or more tables that have properly named keys (like key names for PK/FK relationships), then you can use the following:
select *
from A
natural join B
where A.MayorName is not null
and B.TaxRate > 5
It's a very nice way to join a lot of properly normalized tables with little to no WHERE clauses. SQL Server can probably do the same thing as well.
Ack! I read "Ever have a problem when you're lying naked on your money..." as "Ever have a problem when you're lying naked on your monkey..." and nearly spit Dew all over my monitor!
Latitude C810, 1.13, 512MB, GF4, 60GB, 802.11 enabled, single battery, light to average usage, I get about 3 to 4 hours. Pushing the CPU gets me down to around 1.5 to 2 hours.
A search on Google comes up with QWS3270, also available here. A 90K freeware TN3270 emulator.
I have to agree. I've been eith Dreamhost for a few years now and the few times that I actually have had to contact their technical support, it's been great. The people responding to the requests are knowledgable about the problems and how to fix them. Dreamhost team - if you're reading this, keep up the great work!
Sorry about the syntax - you're right. It is RIGHT [OUTER] JOIN TBL2 ON TBL2.KEY=TBL1.KEY. I'm brain fried. That is the SQL 92 syntax.
The "wierd" syntax for Outer joins is SQL 89 syntax. SQL 92 syntax is the more "modern" way of doing it.
... WHERE TBL1.KEY=TBL2.KEY(+)
... RIGHT OUTER JOIN TBL1.KEY ON TBL2.KEY
SQL89: SELECT
SQL92: SELECT
Oracle 9 supports both syntaxes now.
I have a laptop with a GeForce2 Go in it. It has TwinView support right out of the box. Plug a monitor into the port on the back, or plug a TV into the SVideo out and the drivers will enable TwinView for you. The laptop display becomes the primary, and the external becomes the secondary. It works seamlessly with Windows 2K and XP. I haven't tried Linux on it.
...the large amounts of hardware scattered across the country being linked together to solve (process?) larger problems. There is so much hardware sitting on desks that goes largely unused, this seems to me like the next logical step in computation resources.
Instead of looking for customized hardware, just buy a KVM designed for use over TCP/IP. Then just capture the screens from the remote control software. Search Google for "KVM over IP". One such example is Dakota.
I work with Delphi on a daily basis. Delphi supports (fully) all of the following:
"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
It looks like Ally McBeal got on Voyager...
My cousin flys B1 bombers for a living. They use the toughbooks as in-flight navigation. They hook the GPS receiever on the plane up to the laptop (serial cable !) and use off-the-shelf flight planning software. It's really rather slick, since the in-flight control system is based on two 2MHz CPU's with a whopping 32K RAM each.
"...and sorry to the MCSE's but it is true, the W2K services are nothing but fluff..."
I have to disagree. There is one thing in Windows 2000 that made network support 100 times easier - dynamic DNS. Before (NT4.0) you had to have a DNS server, WINS server, and DHCP server, and WINS wasn't real easy to maintain because of faulty clients and replication issues. The new DDNS system is really sweet. Win2K really made DHCP and DNS talk to each other and I'll never go back to WINS.
MagTek readers are very common in our industry. They have stand-alone readers availible in USB, RS232, keyboard wedge, and TTL configurations. You can also pick up insert kiosk-style readers for use in your own custom designed enclosures. The small form factor keyboard wedges are around $70 from many dealers. I've installed more of those than I can count. Search Google for the part number you're looking for and you'll probably get pages of matches.
If you're looking for more configurability, have a look at IDT-Net's readers. They are available in the stand-alone and kiosk-styles like MagTek, but they have models that can be programmed to pre-pend, post-pend, and modify swiped data before transmittal. That feature is REALLY nice when you're trying to decode some custom membership card that's got it's own wierd track II format. The Omni readers are in the $180 range.
He did say he'd be back...